Organized crime took to the streets of Monterrey to send a message. The state capital of Nuevo León and its metropolitan area woke up on Tuesday with human remains of at least twelve people scattered in seven different locations. The Minister of State Security, Gerardo Palacios Pámanes, has stated that the main line of investigation into the gruesome discovery suggests that it was “a purge within an organized crime group headquartered in Tamaulipas, due to some disloyalties. within your organization.” The signs they left next to the coolers and bags containing the remains contained a message pointing to this idea, signed by the Northeast Cartel, the criminal organization operating in this region. Monterrey, the second largest City of the country and a kind of economic engine for the national economy, like much of this area in northern Mexico, is confronted with the spread of organized crime.
The public prosecutor’s short information sheet confirmed on Tuesday afternoon, after several hours of speculation, that twelve human heads had been found. According to this newspaper’s agency, all the remains belong to men. Palacios Pámanes explained this Tuesday that based on the messages attached to the human remains, they assumed that they were people of a criminal group that had infiltrated the Northeast Cartel and was discovered. Then the minister of the state government, Javier Navarro, said that it was a fight with the Sinaloa cartel. The two criminal organizations have been facing each other in the part of the country above the square for some time in a battle that has already claimed dozens of lives, but so far they have not exposed each other in this way.
Authorities, which held an emergency meeting following the findings, are investigating how the remains were dumped at these seven points, which include some wealthy or busy areas, such as the road to Saltillo or in Apodaca, on the highway leading to the airport. Monterrey International. Pedro Arce, the prosecutor at odds with Governor Samuel García, explained this Tuesday that they would request the surveillance cameras in the communities where the finds were made to try to find those who carried the bags and Throwing coolers into these places. The authorities have also promised to strengthen security in the northern metropolis and the surrounding area.
As the new wave of violence reaches Nuevo León, authorities reported road blockades and a confrontation between a criminal group and state police in the municipality of Dr. Arroyo in the south of the entity. Images showed burning trucks blocking roads. According to the State Security Secretariat, two men were killed and six others were arrested. They also confiscated long guns, grenades and four trucks.
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